I don't want see why father thought it was a good idea to transfer me here. There are so many thoughts running through the young Miharu Miyahara's mind as she reaches the gates of Iwatobi High School. She wasn't used to the idea of being in such a rural area; she used to live in Tokyo with her parents til her father got a job transfer over-seas. Her mother went with him over-seas so Miharu has to go move in with her aunt.
Now I have to be surrounded by a bunch of country bumpkins, great. She continues walking and enters the school. Finds her shoe locker, changes her shoes and heads to the teachers lounge. Miharu wasn't notified of what classroom she is in so she has to find a teacher to help her. I'm so lucky it's early, I'd be so late for class on my first day if I didn't leave early.
"Uhm, I'm looking for Amakata-san...", Miharu speaks up as she enters the teachers lounge.
There were a few teachers organizing their things at their desks and one woman looked up as she hears her name being mentioned. A petite woman stands up and walks up to Miharu.
"Ah, you must be Miyahara-san! You're the new student transferring from Tokyo, It's nice to meet you! I'm Miho Amakata, I will be your homeroom teacher from now on", the petite woman says as she looks up to speak to Miharu. Miharu was so mesmerized by how pretty the small brunette was she forgot to respond.
"y-yeah, I'm Miharu Miyahara. Nice to meet you. Can you help me find the classroom? I don't know where anything is...", she says trying to keep a calm composure.
"Oh sure, let me finish getting my paperwork ready and I'll walk you to class 2-1",Amakata walks back to her desk and starts organizing while Miharu stands by the lounge's entrance.
Okay, first interaction of the day didn't go so bad, let's hope I don't make a fool out of myself. She was still somewhat shocked at how petite and small the homeroom teacher was, It made her a bit self-conscious about her own height. I don't think I'm THAT tall... or I might be just over thinking that. Agh, who cares. She frets over it for a bit, Miharu is only 5'8'', that's just a bit over the average height for women in Japan. Agh who am I kidding, that's way too tall for a Japanese woman!
"Miyahara-san, ready to go?", Miharu becomes startled,grows slightly flustered and looks at the homeroom teacher who slowly walks towards her with a questioning look.
"Y-y-eah".
Amakata and Miharu arrived to the classroom moments later, and the smaller woman opens up the door to reveal that only a few students are in there. Some are sitting down and some are conversing with each other. Miharu looks around at a few of the empty seats wondering where she will be sitting. Amakata notices her looking around in curiousityand giggles. Miharu turns her head in the direction of Amakata, What is she laughing about...?
"Don't worry, we have an empty seat for you, your seat is the second to last by the windows", she chimed in noticing that Miharu was concerned where she was going to sit.
Shit, is my face that easy to read?!
"Oh, okay, thanks! Well, I'll be going to my seat now", Miharu heads to her seat and sits down. Miharu was slightly surprised that no one noticed her, she used to always get stares at her old high school. She was relieved, she wanted to feel normal for once in her life. Maybe this school transfer isn't such a bad thing.
10 minutes have passed and the hallways are starting to get louder. It's getting closer to the time when classes start. More students fill the room and to Miharu's relief no one pays her any mind. Miharu has been doodling in a sketch book for the past 10 minutes since she sat down. Miharu used to be in the art club at her old high school, so her art skill is at a pretty moderate level. The school bell goes off and everyone in the class rushes to their seat.
The school bell is still chiming, and two students enter the classroom. Miharu turns to the direction of the class doorway and notices they barely made it in time
"Haru-chan, I told you we were about to be late!", says a tall young man with gentle green eyes and fluffy brown hair to the shorter man next to him. The one next to him has a bored look on his face, he has straight black hair and blue eyes.
"No one told you to go get me at my house, and stop with the 'chan' ", the young man with blue eyes replies back.
Miharu was genuinely entranced at how attractive these two were, and couldn't help but stare. She quickly turned away when she noticed them walking in her direction. The one that goes by "Haru-chan" sat down in the seat behind her while the other male sat in the seat directly next to his.
The class is quiet now and sitting in their seats waiting for the homeroom teacher to make her announcements. It's the first day of school, Miharu missed the entrance assembly that took the day prior. Most students are already acquainted with each other. Amakata stands up from her desk and looks like she's about to speak.
"Before I do attendance, I would like to introduce a transfer student! Miyahara-san, would you please come up to the front of the class please?"
"Okay", Miharu responds, gets up from her seat and stands next to the petite woman in front of the classroom.
"Introduce yourself and where you came from now".
Shit, everyone's look at me, this is so nerve wrecking!
"I'm Miharu Miyahara, I used to attend a high school in Tokyo, my father's job got relocated over seas and now I am staying with my auntie who lives in this town", okay okay, smooth I didn't stutter! Miharu smiles slightly as she spoke, she was nervous.
Everyone looks at me and chimes in "nice to meet you!". I hear some whispers going around.
"Wow, she's super tall, I wonder if she was an idol in Tokyo".
"Her hair is so smooth and long".
"I wonder what type of club she's going to join, maybe we should ask her later".
Miharu's appearance was pretty average but she did have really long hair like the girls mentioned, her hair is layered and hits the middle of her back. She has some front layers the frame her face.
Most of the girls were whispering among themselves about Miharu's appearance, a lot of the girls seemed envious of her height which was completely different from the reactions she got back home. Miharu startled to feel a little embarassed and her face grew slightly red.
"Thanks Miyahara-san, you may go sit down now."
Miharu starts walking back to her seat and she notices the boy who sits behind her is staring out the window. She finally reaches her seat and the boy notices her staring and glances at her. He doesn't react and continues his gaze out the window. The gentle eyed boy next to him gave a small smile in Miharu's direction. She smiles sheepishly and sits back down.
Amakata starts taking attendance. The gentle-eyed boy goes by the name of Makoto Tachibana and the boy with the forever bored expression is Haruka Nanase. Wow, they have really girly names, Miharu thinks to herself, well it's not too bad, it kinda matches their pretty appearance- -w-wait a minute, did I just call them pretty?! No no no, No way in hell did I just compliment them like that, I'm so glad no one can hear my thoughts right now. I'm getting second hand embarrassment from my own self.
Classes for the morning finished and it's time for lunch. I wonder where I should go to eat lunch, It would be kind of lame to eat in the classroom, and no way in hell am I going to the cafeteria to go eat. I want to go eat outside... hmm, maybe the roof?
Miharu grabs her bento box, and starts heading to the roof, she starts walking up some stairs and here's some chattering from outside the door as she approaches it. She peeks through the door and notices Makoto and Haruka. There's another group there, but they're separated from the two boys, it's a group of girls just eating lunch and talking away.
Hmm, seems like the rooftop is forever a popular spot even here in the country. Guess I'll eat my lunch on the other side away from the others.
Before Miharu opens up the door, she notices a smaller figure standing next to her.
"AAAGHH!", She shrieks and drops her bento on the floor as she inches away from what looks like to be a young boy with blonde hair, propably a first year. Oh this little shit-
"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you! You looked so serious so I was concerned ", the boy says with a huge grin.
You don't look so concerned to me with that stupid smile on your face.
"You didn't have to stand so close atleast! Jeez!" Miharu belts out in between breaths from being startled just moments ago. She picks up her bento box that was just dropped.
The door to the rooftop opens and Makoto comes out with a worrisome look on his face. He notices Miharu and the blonde boy.
"N-nagisa?! Miyahara-san? ", Makoto says to the blonde boy before looking back to Miharu.
So I guess this blonde kid is named Nagisa... what's with these guys and the girly names in this town?! Who's parents names them this stuff?
"Mako-chan! ", the boys face brightened up and gave the taller boy a half hug.
"You're going here now?! Also, what did you do to Miyahara-san?!", he looks at the the girl who grew so pale from being frightened half to death.
He scared the shit out of me,that's what.
"I-i'm okay, he just startled me that's all", Miharu said trying to reassure Makoto.
That's a big fat lie, more like startled me ALOT.
Makoto gives Nagisa a scolding look.
"I'm sorry okay?! I apologized to her, she has a serious look on her face when she was peeking through the door so I wanted to see if she was okay. She didn't hear me step next to her and she screamed. " Nagisa says tried to explains himself.
Hmm, maybe I'll give this kid a break... he did apologize.
"uh.. I...", crap I can't even think of what to say now. Miharu is at a loss of words and fidgets a bit. Nagisa grabs her hand, and gives her an apologetic smile.
"Forgive me yea, uhm... Miyahara-san was it?" Nagisa asks.
Miharu gets embarrassed and just nods. She pulls her hand out of Nagisa's grip.
"My name is Miharu Miyahara. I didn't fully get your name though...", she tries to make conversation to lighten the awkward vibe.
"Ah, I'm Nagisa Hazuki! I used to be in a swim club with Haru-chan and Mako-chan! ", the boy says in an energetic tone.
"Ah yeah, I didn't get to fully introduce myself either...", Makoto says before he looks to see that the door to the roof top is still open and Haruka is standing in the door way. He just stares at the three that are standing in the hallway.
"Ahh, uhm, let's go sit down and talk over there", Makoto opens the door for Miharu and Nagisa. Miharu walks over to the spot where Haruka's and Makoto's lunches were.
How the hell did I get into this situation?! I just wanted to eat lunch... guess I got my wish for wanting to have lunch with someone.
Everyone sits down in a circle, Makoto chooses to sit down next to Miharu to make her feel comfortable in the situation the others dragged her into. Haruka continues eatting his food in silence, Haruka's bento looks identical to the one Makoto has placed out in front of him.
Ah, they're pretty close, they got matching bentos... I want a matching bento - Matching bento?! Whoa, my thoughts are running off again, no, that would be way too embarassing!
"Ah, Miyahara-san, I'd like to introdude myself", Makoto speaks up looking in her direction, "I'm Makoto Tachibana, you can just call me Makoto"
No way in hell can I call you by your first name this soon dude!
"Ah, that's fine, I'll just call you Tachibana-san", Makoto frowned for a second then gave his usual smile.
"And thats - " Makoto starts to say looking in Haruka's direction, instead gets interrupted.
"I'm Haruka Nanase, I don't care what you call me, just not Haru-chan", Haruka says before continuing eating.
Well, it's not like I wanted to call you Haru-chan in the first place!
"Ah, nice to met you all, Tachibana-san, Hazuki-san and Nanase-san", Miharu chimed in.
"Can I call you Mi-chan?!", Nagisa looks in Miharu's direction with an eager expression.
Mi-Mi-Mi-Chan?!
"Ehh?! Mi-Chan?! Why?", Miharu exclaims.
"Mi-chan sounds cute", Makoto adds on with a bright smile.
"It does doesn't it? So can I? Can i?!", Nagisa now begging her.
"Ah- uhm, sure... Just don't do it alot...", feeling pressured into it because it sounds 'cute', Miharu agrees to the name.
"May I call you Mi-chan too , Miyahara-san?", Makoto asks with anticipation in his eyes.
Oh god don't look at me like that!
"Err... sure...", Miharu says with a bright red face. She continues looking down as she finishes her food.
The four of them chat about random stuff. Over time the mood is lessened up and Miharu is conversing normally with the group. It's been awhile since she's felt comfortable around people, guys for that matter too. Even Haruka doesn't mind being around her, and he usually finds other people a nuisance at times. She wasn't like the other girls who would try to ask out Makoto or himself. She genuinely seemed average.
"Oh, lunch is almost over... we should start heading back to class", Miharu says as she's looking at her cell phone to check the time.
"Aww, I was having so much fun!", Nagisa whines.
"We can all eat lunch together tomorrow", Makoto says.
"Mnnn, yeah", even Haruka spoke and agreed.
Miharu felt a small tingly feeling inside, a warmth she hasn't felt in awhile. It was nice to be around friends even if she just met them. In Tokyo, people weren't as nice, guys sure weren't either. No one really spoke to her. Miharu, Haruka and Makoto head back to their class and Nagisa walks along with them to their class.
"Isn't your class in the other direction?", Makoto asks.
"Yeah but I wanted to walk with you guys", Nagisa replies
The four reach 2-1 and they stop in front of the class. Nagisa walks off in the other direction then stops. He turns back.
"Let's all hang out together after school! Even you too, Mi-chan!", he yells.
Miharu's classmates are all heading inside class, and just stare at Nagisa and the three that are standing in front of the classroom. Oh my god, now he's got these people looking at me all weird!
"Yeah yeah, just go to class! Bye!", Miharu yells back.
Makoto just laughs. The three head inside the classroom and take their seats.